CSS: Moving the text down a few pixels but keeping the background still?

Question

I have some CSS buttons that are bigger when hovered over. I have also made the text bigger however I would like to move the text down a few px without messing with the background image being used.

help?

my code looks like this:

<div id="nav">
    <a href="index.php">Home</a>
    <a id="headrush">Beer Bongs</a>
    <a id="thabto">Novelty</a>
</div>

#nav a {
    background: url(Images/Button.png);
    height: 28px;
    width: 130px;
    font-family: "Book Antiqua";
    font-size: 12px;
    text-align: center;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    color: #C60;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-position: center;
    margin: auto;
    display: block;
    position: relative;
}

#nav a:hover {
    background: url(Images/Button%20Hover.png);
    height: 34px;
    width: 140px;
    font-family: "Book Antiqua";
    font-size: 16px;
    text-align: center;
    color: #C60;
    text-decoration: none;
    margin: -3px;
    z-index: 2;
}

#nav a:active {
    background: url(Images/Button%20Hover.png);
    height: 34px;
    width: 140px;
    font-family: "Book Antiqua";
    font-size: 14px;
    text-align: center;
    color: #862902;
    text-decoration: none;
    margin: 0 -3px;
    z-index: 2;
}

Solution 1

Use the line-height CSS property.

Solution 2

Use the following style for link:

#nav a:link {
background: #ff00ff url(Images/Button.png);
height:28px;
width:130px;
font-family:"Book Antiqua";
font-size:12px;
text-align:center;
vertical-align:bottom;
color:#C60;
text-decoration:none;
background-position:center;
display:block;
position:relative;
}

In :hover and :visited define only what you want to change (background, font-size, etc.).

#nav a:hover {
    background: #f000f0 url(Images/Button%20Hover.png);
}

In your code links have different size:
a - height:28px; width:130px;,
a:hover height:34px; width:140px;,
a:visited - height:34px; width:140px;),

That's why you getting different size, position (in a you use margin:auto - 0px), but for a:hover margin has change, so your link also change position.

Solution 3

If you want to move the text down, use padding-top.

Solution 4

line-height can work depending on your situation.

Problem with line-height can be if you have a background color and then it will also expand.

For something I was doing, I'm nesting some divs

I used position:relative; top:20px;

<div class="col-lg-11">
   <div style="position:relative; top:20px;">CR</div>     
</div>

This inline style is ONLY TEMPORARY

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